In May 2019, Gazélec Ajaccio left Ligue 2 following a wildly lost tie against Le Mans. Two years and five months later, on September 4, 2021, he launched his season in National 3. A descent into hell as fast as it is frightening for the Corsican club and its loyal supporters.
As a reminder, the team then coached by Hervé Della Maggiore made a big step towards maintaining L2 after winning at the MMA Arena (1-2) then falling in the last seconds on the return to Mezzavia (0-2) . A sporting failure from which he will not recover. Not yet, in any case. After having hoped for a draft by the DNCG following the financial difficulties of Sochaux saved by the transfer of Lucien Agoumé to Inter Milan and boycotted the first day of National, the “Gas” entrusted to the volcanic trainer François Ciccolini is experiencing all the difficulties in the world to exist. And when Edouard Philippe pronounces the end of the championships on March 6, 2020 because of the pandemic, the island club is relegated … and therefore relegated to N2 without being able to fight to the end.
Administrative relegation to N3, the hammer too many
Former GFCA player (2014-2017), David Ducourtioux is recruited in May 2020 to lead the team in the next fiscal year. Ten days later, two new shareholders, Pierre Arrighi and Anthony Perrino, joined also shareholder chairman Mathieu Messina Arrighi with the aim of “allow the club to regain economic stability and a place in the professional world”. Several quality players are committed to aim for a comeback, but here again, the championship is not coming to an end. Sponsors are leaving, supporters no longer need to buy tickets. Unlike many professional clubs, those of N2 are not lucky enough to have multimillionaires at their head, TV rights or a loan guaranteed by the State to keep the building in place. Thus last July, the Gaziers, plagued by major economic concerns, again suffered the blow when the financial policeman of French football decided to downgrade them administratively to National 3, that is to say to the fifth French level. Already pronounced the previous year before being canceled, the measure represents this time the blow too much for a club recently bereaved by the disappearance of its honorary president for life Fanfan Tagliaglioli.
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